Testimonies of Healing

Through the healing of a sister of the necessity for a surgical operation, I was led to investigate Christian Science. I needed something to cling to, for the church of which I was an active member had not met my need.

For the many blessings received through the study of Christian Science, I desire to express my deep and heartfelt gratitude. Within three days after I first started to read our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was healed of chronic sick headaches which had held me in bondage since I was a boy four or five years of age.

For several years I had attended the Sunday School of an informal group of Christian Scientists near my home and had been very happy there. Then there came a day when mortal mind claimed most insistently that I was ill.

Since the appearance of my first testimony in the Christian Science Sentinel of January 1, 1938, I have had many further proofs of the efficacy of Christian Science. About nine years ago I noted an article in The Christian Science Monitor about a woman attorney with whom I had had some contact in a position I had held a few years before.

" Owe no man any thing, but to love one another" ( Rom. 13:8 ).

I have been a student of Christian Science for many years, but it was only when I awakened to the privilege of availing myself of the blessing of class instruction that I made my most rapid growth Spiritward. Heretofore I had served in a small way in church activity, but now I know I am of much more value to my church, my services have brought me a far greater joy and peace, and I have made much spiritual progress.

" I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings" ( Ps.

I am grateful for the gift of Christian Science given us by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health and her other writings, for her founding of the Church and for the Church Manual she provides for its government.

It was thirty-nine years ago that I received my first healing in Christian Science. While suffering from what the doctors called appendicitis, I was told that I would have to be operated upon.

In my quest to find the only true God I was led to investigate Christian Science, which I did by reading through several times the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Then, knowing that it is the truth, I applied for membership in a Christian Science Society.